Taxi in Berlin ...
Unter dienstreisenden Kollegen erzaehlt man sich ja manchmal den einen oder anderen Schwank vom letzten Trip ins Ungewisse. Und so habe ich das Gerücht von total inkompetenten Taxifahrern schon häufiger...
Less known Solaris features: pfiles
This is not a tutorial, just a hint from my toolbox. On customer systems i see the lsof tool quite often. But for a quick check for open files you...
links for 2008-03-18
(tye)Re: one-liner hogs (tags: testing debugging perl)
Das Rechenzentrum von morgen
Im Linux-Magazin ist ein Artikel ueber einen Vortrag von zwei Kollegen zu lesen: GUUG-Fachgespräch: Wie Sun die RZ-Architektur von morgen sieht. Recht kristisch, aber von einem Magazin das das pinguinoide...
SamFS/QFS opensourced
Some weeks ago, i wrote about about an idea to use hierarchical storage management at home. One important part of this idea is now available as opensource. Yesterday Sun opened...
Less known Solaris Features: Resource Management
Okay, my tutorials getting bigger. This one has 7 parts. Well, this increase come from writting more, but shorter articles instead of a few longer ones. Well, this is next...
Less known Solaris Features: Resource Management - Part 7: Conclusion
The Solaris Resource Managment is an powerful tool to partition the resources of a single instance of an operating system. By using Solaris Resource Managment you can use a single...
Less known Solaris Features: Resource Management - Part 6: Resource Management and SMF
A few days ago, i wrote about the Service Management Facility, a framework to manage services in Solaris. This framework enables Solaris to start services in a more intelligent manner....
Less known Solaris Features: Resource Management - Part 5: Management of memory resources
So far we configured limits on the usage of operating syste resources and the CPU. Let´s get back to the class room example used before. A different course at the...
Less known Solaris Features: Resource Management - Part 4: Limiting CPU usage
Okay, but your system wasn´t purchased for students at night. You´ve bought it for computational science at night. The Large Hadron Collider project spend 75% of the costs, and the...
Less known Solaris Features: Resource Management - Part 3: Limiting operating system resources
The kernel of an operating system provides a huge amount of resources to the processes running on it. Such resources are file descriptors, shared memory segments or the process tables....
Less known Solaris Features: Resource Management - Part 2: How to work with Tasks and Projects
Even when you never heard of constructs like tasks and projects you already use them, as there are a few projects installed per default. For example whenever you log into...
Less known Solaris Features: Resource Management - Part 1: Introduction
Resource Management is an rather old feature in Solaris, albeit it got more mind share since it got a really important part of the Solaris Zones. But this tutorial doesn´t...
Benchmark games - today: The german "Power6 brings the truth to daylight"-campaign
IBM understands the art of nonsensical comparision to perfection. IBM Germany tries to convince the customers, that Sun is extremly expensive. Okay, at first: They use the oldest trick in...
Copycats
I´ve wrote on some occasions in the past that the marketing of IBM is really innovative (vicious voices tend to say, it´s their last core competency). But they seem to...
NSA and Opensolaris
I´ve linked to the Opensolaris project for implementing Flexible Mandatory Access Control a few days ago. Yesterday we´ve made the announcement that a joint effort of Sun(NASDAQ:JAVA) and the NSA...
The day of pi
Body enhancement via Photoshop
You can´t believe a photo. Never. And this is one of the reasons: 33 Awesome Body Enhancement Photoshop Tutorials.
links for 2008-03-13
deputydog | 7 amazing holes Well .. holes ... amazing holes (tags: hole)
TPM about Victoria Falls
TPM used to be be better informed in the past than today: A rather uninformed article about the upcoming Victoria Falls systems, at least regarding the stuff you wasn´t able...